Mavericks Tagging In The Wild

Back when OS X 10.9 Mavericks was announced, one of the big features (to some anyways), was the addition of built-in file tagging. This led some, myself included, to wonder what that would mean for the current tagging “standard”, OpenMeta. Would they play nicely together?

Tom Anderson from Ironic Software (one of the creators of OpenMeta) answered quickly:

It appears that the technical under – the hood implementation of tagging in OS X 10.9 is more than very similar to the methods used by OpenMeta tags. This is good in two ways, as it promises a clean and simple transition, and the other is that we knew we had it right 5 years ago when we started working on a unified tagging solution for the Mac.

Now it is starting to look like OpenMeta-enabled applications are starting to support Mavericks tags, and they appear to have the ability to work with both and even merge the two.

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